What is it that draws us to failing?
Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing.
The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020.
In this talk from her home in New York, the short story writer, novelist, essayist and translator Lydia Davis speaks about failure, reads a prose poem from The Rooster’s Wife by Russell Edson, and reads a new story ‘Learning to Sing’, shared in the public domain for the first time in the symposium.
